Oiiii meus amigos!! Well a TON has happened this week!! I’ve been transfered to the furthest north area in our mission!! Port Saint Lucie!! Woohoo!! The promised land!! The ward is INCREDIBLE and it’s all suburbs and reminds me of home!! Ahhh I love it out here!! And when I got here we hit the ground sprinting!!! Haha!!
This week we have been focusing a TON on Member work!! But really pushing getting less active members back. Not only that, but trying to involve the ward and units in our mission to engage in missionary work!! We have had statistics that we have looked at as a mission that is 80 percent of our baptisms come from member referrals and 20 percent has come from our own finding efforts. So we’ve been hitting member dots every day and I’ve had the most tender experiences on my mission than I have ever had so far!! We’ve had so many successful contacts with less active members and also one that offered to feed us this week!! The Lord is leading this mission to finding more miracles!! WOOHOO!!
Well, something funny this week is Elder Havell and I were teaching a lesson and I was explaining more about the Book of Mormon and what it is and I literally couldn’t think of the phrase “fulness of the gospel”. I was stuck and just said the phrase in Portuguese haha it was super funny!
So when I got here in the area we had a baptism we had to prepare for that we had on Saturday for our friend Danny! And we shared the Restoration to everyone there. Danny also invited a couple of his friends that were there supporting him! The spirit was so strong. Even though the members there have heard and know the Restoration, the spirit is always so special. It got me pondering on how lucky we are as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to have a living prophet that is guided and directed by our Savior, Jesus Christ! I love this work. I love learning more about my Savior. And I LOVE being a missionary. This work is truly the Lord’s work and I am forever grateful for this opportunity that I have to truly bring the world the truth. I hope you all have a great week!! I love and miss you all!! ❤️❤️
Tchau tchau!!
Elder Castillo